The Clifton clarion., 1887-12-14
CoLp.BLooDED MURDER.
Kid Lewis Kills Ed. Fitzgerald
 at Carlisle.

From Mir. J. J. Oswald of Car
 lisle we are indebted for the par
 ticulars of a cold-blooded murder
 which took place at that camp on
 the 9th inst, when Ed. Fitz-
 gerald, a well-known mining man,
 was shot and instantly killed by a
 desperado named "Kid" Lewis.
 From the evidence adduced at the
 inquest 1t appears that Mir. Fitz-
 gerald at one time in the past
 followed and recovered at Tomb
 stone some stolen stock in Lewis
 possession which were taken by
 the latter from Lake valley, On
 this occasion Lewis begged very
 hard from the decsased not to be
 arrested, and his request was
 granted. The men did not meet
 again until last Monday night,
 when Fitzgerald recognized Lewis
 in Bailey's saloon at Carlisle and
 taxed him with being the man
 whom he "had made beg off at
 Tombstone" Lewis acknowledged
 his identity and words followed
 between the men, in which Lewis spoke of fighting, whereupon Fitz- gerald offered 10 fight Lewis in any manner he wanted, saying that he preferred to fight with his fists, as he did not like to use a gun. Lewis then said, "You made me take water once before, and here in the presence of these gentlemen I take water again. l am going home and going to bed" whereupon he walked out of the saloon and went in the direction of his lodgings. Some three quarters of an hour afterward, or in the neighborhood of 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, while Fitz- gerald was shaking dice at the bar with some companions, Lewis en- tered at the door with a cooked Winchester in his hand. As soon as he was fairly inside and within a few feet of Fitzgerald he called out, You are the am looking forl" and as Fitz- gerald, whose back was toward the assassin, started to turn around, Lewis fired, the ball pass ing from side to side through the l upper part of Fitzgerald's body. | The deceased did not speak after receiving the wound.
 After committing his cowardly | crime Lewis made his escape from | .he town. A reward for the re- turn of his body, dead or alive, | was thereupon offered by Mir. | Davenport, for whom Fitzgerald lad been working, and posse consisting of John and James Parkes, Charley Jones, John Epley | md another man startedin pursuit | md overlook the fugitive at | Horseshoe Bend, about F miles | south of Summit station. The capture was made by the three first named of the posse during he temporary absence in another direction of Mir. Epley and part Ter. The posse returned to Dun ,an with their prisoner, where he vas held until yesterday morning, I when deputy sheriff from Silver Jity took the murderer to that place.
 Kid Lewis is we'll known in Clifton and other places in this county, and bore most unsavory While in Clifton he vas arrested on charge of as ault to commit murder and was sentenced to six months in the county jail at Solomonville. He heard of at Camp Thomas, where he was arrested on a charge 'f robbing or attempting to rob he postofice at that place. He vas only released from jail at the ast term of court on technical ty under the above charge.
 MT. Fitzgerald, the victim of the lastardly crime, is well spoken of y Mir. Oswald. He bore the re- 'utation of being a quiet and 'eaceably disposed man when ober, but when in his cups he vas always willing to fight upon 'rovocation, never desiring, how 'ver, to use any other weapons han those furnished by nature, md never carrying deadly weap- ,ns.
 Only a few cars of coke for the